Florida wildlife officials plead to keep fireworks and dogs from traumatizing nesting shorebirds and sea turtles ...

It has been a record year for the sea turtle nesting season in Florida. Turtles are once again proving that slow and steady wins the race. Decades after initiating protections for the turtles that ...

A large sea turtle got a little turned around on Jupiter Island last month, the Fish and Wildlife Commission said.

New Decals Fund Crucial Conservation for Beloved Marine Life The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) ...

Green sea turtles had an exceptional nesting season on Florida’s beaches in 2023, with volunteers counting more than 74,300 nests, according to preliminary data. That beats the previous record ...

In Florida, sea turtle strandings began spiking in mid-February. By late in the month, the turtle strandings were up 65% over the 10-year average for the same time period.

Because Florida's shorelines provide important nesting habitats for several species of threatened and endangered sea turtles, beachgoers can have a significant impact on the success of this year ...

Nests in Florida reached a record high number in 2023, but population-wide conclusions require long-term data sets, said Jack Brzoza, a sea turtle biologist at Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation.

In Gulf County in northwest Florida, where sea turtle season runs from May 1 to Oct. 31, the St. Joseph Peninsula Turtle Patrol on Cape San Blas takes a “turtle walkabout” each morning at dawn ...

Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a unique problem made worse by climate change: recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

Many Florida beaches welcome a special type of visitor as the weather gets warmer: sea turtles.Female sea turtles crawl out of the water from spring to early fall to build nests and lay eggs on ...